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He would become the world's youngest ever grandmaster the following year. Open Chess Championship in Cleveland, defeated the Filipino master Rodolfo Tan Cardoso in New York, and was named the country's youngest chess master.
1957, the year of Fischer's inscription, was a significant one in his career: he successfully defended his United States Junior title, won the U.S. Collins had a substantial library and Fischer devoured everything" (Brady, pp. Collins held open house two or three nights a week at his residence in Flatbush, and Bobby had dinner there almost as often as in his own home It's fortunate, and revealing, that Bobby chose the Collins's as his alter familias Bobby played literally thousands of speed and off-hand games with Collins and the other regulars of the 'Hawthorne', almost all strong masters Even though he had been attracted to chess literature from the moment he saw his first chess book, it was not until Bobby started frequenting the Collins household that he began the gigantic reading task that has made him the most educated chess theoretician since the game entered its modern era in 1495.
Collins, a man who contributed at least as much to Bobby's early development as Carmine Nigro and who has been Bobby's friend, colleague, and advisor ever since. "In the spring of 1956 Bobby began frequenting the 'Hawthorne Chess Club', which wasn't a club at all but the home of John W. Jack Collins (1912 2001) was an American chess master, author, and teacher.
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First edition of Alekhine's 300 Selected Games, this a presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by a 14-year-old Fischer, "1957, From Bobby to Jack".
Fischer won seven of the next 19 games, losing only one and drawing eleven, to win the match 12½ 8½. After that game, the match was moved back to the stage and proceeded without further serious incident. Fischer lost the first two games in strange fashion, and would likely have forfeited the entire match, but Spassky, not wanting to win by default, yielded to Fischer's demands to move the next game to a back room, away from the cameras. In Reykjavik, Fischer was accompanied by Lombardy, described by Fischer's biographer Frank Brady as "one of the country's finest players since his teenage years", who not only acted as his second, assisting Fischer with analysis, but may also have played an important role in getting Fischer to both play in the match and stay in it. "What followed may be considered the most brilliant and dominating two-year run of chess play in the history of the game Fischer had now earned the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the world title, and in the summer of 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland, Fischer soundly defeated the Soviet champion" (ibid.). Championship, which was also a zonal qualifier, but both Pal Benko and Will Lombardy, two of the three qualifiers, agreed to give up their spots to give Fischer another shot at the title. Fischer had withdrawn from competitive chess in late 1968 but in 1970 began a new push to become World Champion. First edition, first printing of My 60 Memorable Games, inscribed by Lombardy, clearly at Fischer's behest, within days of the latter's landmark world championship victory in 1972, popularly known as "The Match of the Century".
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Superbly and compellingly provenanced volumes, the Alekhine inscribed by the teenaged Fischer to his mentor, and putative father figure, Jack Collins Fischer's own book, "considered a classic in chess literature" (ANB), signed in full by Fischer and presented to Collins by Fischer's close associate Will Lombardy, "Autographed by the new World Chess Champion and presented by him to Jack and Ethel Collins with affection.